My central
aim is to engage the viewer with their unconscious by presenting them with
an image or object that speaks the language of dream.

My paintings
seem to intrigue the mind by presenting it with something paradoxical that
is akin to a riddle, a puzzle or some kind of alchemical language. We naturally
seek to make sense of it but when this is not possible in the conscious mind
it is left up to the unconscious to draw links between the opposing elements
of the picture.

This
draws attention to dream and the unconscious which is so under-valued in contemporary
society but which has a healing quality. In the words of C.G.Jung;

³If attention
is directed to the unconscious, the unconscious will yield up its contents,
and these in turn will fructify the conscious like a fountain of living water.
For consciousness is just as arid as the unconscious if the two halves of
our psychic life are seperated.²[1]

³...any
connection with the cut off part of the psyche is therapeutically effective.²[2]